Lead Enterprise Architect - Cloud Solutions

• iaas
• paas
• aws
• azure
• private cloud

Enterprise Architect – Contract - London Hybrid

Location: London (Liverpool Street Office, 1-2 days per week)

Duration: 6 Months

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise

Architect / Practice Lead to join a major transformation initiative. You will take ownership of private cloud, public IaaS/PaaS (AWS and Azure), networking, and digital workplace services, ensuring all transformation strategies and project deliveries comply with best practices and uniform global standards.
This is a high-impact, client-facing role that bridges pre-sales, solutioning, and hands‑on technical design
. You will lead architectural alignment between regional business stakeholders and the Global Technology organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Transformation:

Define transformation strategies, present to executive steering committees, and establish clear 1-2 year technical visions.

Solution Architecture:

Architect highly complex solutions across private cloud, public cloud, networking, and digital workplace environments, balancing cost, performance, and scalability.

Pre-Sales & Delivery:

Assist sales and delivery teams with solution design, effort estimation, costing, and successful execution through Deliverability Assessment Reviews (DA Reviews).

Technical Leadership:

Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, mentor junior solution architects, and remain hands‑on where required to unblock technical teams.

Governance & Standards:

Ensure designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards, cloud industry security best practices (CSA & NIST), and published reference architectures.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Background: Significant professional technical and IT operations experience within a large-scale, multinational technology services environment, backed by a strong systems engineering foundation.
• Cloud & Virtualisation: Extensive hands‑on expertise with AWS, Azure, Private Cloud (VMware IaaS, Azure AVS, VxRail, ESX, vSAN), and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, CaaS, FaaS, Serverless).
• Storage Technologies: Demonstrable experience working with Hitachi, Dell, and Net App storage solutions.
• Infrastructure as Code & Tooling: Comprehensive experience implementing and integrating multiple IaC and management toolsets (e.g., Terraform, Service Now CMP, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Solar Winds, SCOM) at an enterprise scale.
• Architecture & Networking: Deep knowledge of networking principles (TCP/UDP, routing, SDN), Linux / Windows OS internals, multi‑tenanted virtualised platforms, and microservice/event‑driven architectures.
• Consulting & Communication: Outstanding stakeholder management, client engagement, negotiation, and written/verbal communication skills.